Marble Palace, State Russian Museum St Petersburg
Helnwein
Commemorating the retrospective of Gottfried Helnwein in St. Petersburg's Marble Palace in 1997, the State Russian Museum has published the most comprehensive anthology of the unconventional artist's work to date.
This is the first publication showing all aspects of Helnwein's complete works from the period between 1970 and 1997.
It includes his graphic works, watercolors, oil and mixed media paintings,
his photographic work, public actions and installations as well as his works for the theatre.
With texts by Heiner Müller, William S. Burroughs, H.C.Artmann, Klaus Honnef and Peter Selz.
424 pages, 580 illustrations.
Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH,
Cologne, Germany
Helnwein ...

MTV: Sigismondi and Bowie both acknowledge lifting the imagery in his "Dead Man Walking" video from the work of the English painter Francis Bacon.
The look of Floria's most noted video to date, though, [QuickTime,1 MB] "Beautiful People," although it owes a debt to Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein, was pretty much the inspiration of the artist, Marilyn Manson.
KURT:
The new wave of rock-video grotesquerie isn't new at all, actually, the Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein, whose self-portrait adorned the cover of an album by the German band Scorpions some years back, was doing images of medical horror twenty years ago,
and no one in rock has gone as far down the road to happy depravity as photographer Joel Peter Witkin, whose deeply disturbing work, which you might best seek out on your own is much admired by Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor, no slouch at images of icky sickness himself. ...

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Catalogue
Muffathalle, München
47. Berliner Festwochen, Berliner Arena
Ausstattung: Gottfried Helnwein
Regie: Gert Hof ...

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catalogue
text by Chikako Imai
text by Evgenija Nicolaevna Petrova
Chief Curator, State Russian Museum St Petersburg
Alexander Borovsky, Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art,State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
Günter Zehnder,Chief Curator, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
text by Andreas Mäckler. ...

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Helnwein's painting "Dresden" is part of the Ludwig collection donated to the Chinese Museum for the Arts in Beijing. ...

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TOKYO

Interview with Gottfried Helnwein
Interviewer: ITO Toshiharu
Translation: ENDO Tohru
ゴットフリート・ヘルンヴァイン インタビュー
インタヴュアー： 伊藤俊治
遠藤徹　訳 ...

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an exhibition curated by John Yau
catalogue published by Smart Art Press
to coincide with the premiere exhibition at Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
February 3 - April 1, 1995
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Bergamot Station Arts Center
Santa Monica, California
February 3 - April 1, 1995
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Thread Waxing Space
New York, New York
May 2 - June 10, 1995
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Centre Gallery
Miami-Dade Community College/Wolfson Campus
Miami Florida
September 7 - October 17, 1995 ...

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Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science, Peoria, Illinois
Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland
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...the portraits of Hendrix, Joplin, and Lennon are particulary stirring because their ghostlike treatment translates as a poetic and humble tribute to major creative forces whose lives were tragically cut short. As exemplified by the paintings of Helnwein, the purpose of a contemporary rock and roll portrait may extend well beyond biographical signification to stimulating reflection upon larger issues of social or political consequence. ...